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• ʿABDĪ NĪŠĀPŪRĪ

  P. P. Soucek

  16th-century calligrapher and poet.

• ʿABDĪ ŠĪRĀZĪ

  M. Dabīrsīāqī and B. Fragner

  (1513-80), poet.

• ABDĪH UD SAHĪGĪH Ī SAGASTĀN

  A. Tafażżolī

  (“The wonder and remarkability of Sagastān”), short Pahlavi treatise.

• ʿĀBEDĪ

  C. E. Bosworth

  a landowner (dehqān) of Transoxania (12th century).

• ĀBƎRƎT

  W. W. Malandra

  one of the eight Zoroastrian priests of the yasna ritual.

• ĀBEŠ ḴĀTŪN

  B. Spuler

   Salghurid ruler of Fārs (1263-84), daughter of Atābeg Saʿd II.

• ABGAR

  J. B. Segal

  dynasty of Edessa, 2nd century B.C. to 3rd century A.D.

• ABHAR

  C. E. Bosworth

  a small town in the Qazvīn district.

• ʿABHAR AL-ʿĀŠEQĪN

  H. Corbin

  work of the Persian mystic Rūzbehān Baqlī Šīrāzī (1128-1209).

• ABHARĪ, ABŪ BAKR

  B. Reinert

  Sufi of Persian ʿErāq (d. 941-42).

• ABHARĪ, AMĪN-AL-DĪN

  D. Pingree

   mathematician, said to have died in 1332-33.

• ABHARĪ, AṮĪR-AL-DĪN

  G. C. Anawati

  (d. 1264), logician, mathematician, and astronomer.

• ABHARĪ, KAMĀL-AL-DĪN

  C. E. Bosworth

  vizier of the last two Great Saljuq sultans in western Persia.

• ABHARĪ, MAḴDŪM

  Hameed ud-Din

  16th-century traditionist.

• ĀBĪ

  E. Ehlers

  Persian term for those agricultural lands which are irrigated.

• ĀBĪ, ABŪ ʿABDALLĀH

  Abu’l-Qāsem Gorji

  8th-century traditionist.

• ĀBĪ, ABŪ SAʿĪD

  M. M. Mazzaoui

  11th-century vizier and man of letters.

• ĀBĪ, ʿEZZ-AL-DĪN

  Abu’l-Qāsem Gorji

  Imami faqīh (jurist) of the 13th century.

• ABIRĀDŪŠ

  M. Dandamayev

  a village in Elam.

• ABIRATTA(Š)

  M. Mayrhofer

  ancient Near Eastern proper name said to be of (Indo-)Aryan origin, by comparison with Vedic ratha, Avestan raθa “chariot.” This analysis, however, remains uncertain.